But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it.

A part is always too limited to explain the whole. You might picture a worldview as trying to stuff the entire universe into a box. Invariably, something will stick out of the box. Its categories are too "small" to explain the world.

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.